ABSTRACT

Civil society struggles on issues of deprivation and denial of fundamental rights of group-identities, communities, and civil society group itself. In the recent past, forces of the state and market are effectively creating resource-based and identity-based struggles by the ‘political society’, much of which is subjected to statist manipulation, coercion and co-optation leading to a besieged life in the region. Inter-ethnic conflicts too are a part of the same process of othering the Northeast by the larger state and market, which calls for a more humane and justiciable application of constitutional rights and its safeguards.